FROM FOX NEWS: A Manhattan-based psychotherapist claims he has received dozens of hate messages, including death threats, since speaking publicly about seeing patients in his practice he describes as experiencing “Trump derangement syndrome.”
Jonathan Alpert, author of the forthcoming book “Therapy Nation,” said he faced backlash after appearing on Fox News last week to discuss his Nov. 12 Wall Street Journal op-ed about “patients across the political spectrum” who bring up President Donald Trump in therapy sessions “not to discuss policy but to process obsession, rage and dread.”
Alpert shared with Fox News Digital several messages he said he received via text and email over the past week.
One unhealthy message read, “Eat s— and die you racist fascist piece of s—… f—ing uneducated MAGA scumbag.”
Another called him a “Pedophile protector,” and another said, “You’re a lowlife, worthless fraudulent piece of s— pedophile who decent people hope is slaughtered, and the video is posted to YouTube.”
Speaking to Fox News, Alpert said, “It’s been intense. I expected disagreement, but I didn’t expect the level of hostility, especially from people in the mental health field.”
“What has stood out is the contradiction,” he continued. “Many of the people who speak the most about empathy, tolerance and inclusion reacted with the least of it. That reversal tells us something about how emotionally charged politics has become.”
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